Biographical Sketch of Henry Brant, Johnson County, Missouri
Grover Township

>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

HENRY BRANT,

farmer and stock raiser; P.O. Knobnoster.  The subject of this sketch is
a native of Montgomery county, Ohio, and was born May 12, 1832; and when
he was about six years of age his parents moved to another county, where
he was educated, and lived until nineteen years of age.  He then
returned to his native county and learned the trade of wagon maker.  He
was married in Montgomery county, to Miss Lydia Kinsey, August, 1854.
She was a native of Ohio; and from this union they have four children:
Mary E., Mandie E., Lydia A., Bertha M.  In 1859 he came to Johnson
county, and since that time he has improved a fine farm of 120 acres,
and has first-class buildings. When the war broke out he offered his
services to the Union cause, and served nine months; then he returned to
his old home in Ohio, and remained there until the war was over.  He
then returned to his farm in Johnson county. He is an active member in
the M.E. church, and is always among its liberal contributors and
supporters.

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